Data centres near capacity

10 February 2012

Data centres near capacity

11 December 2008 JJ Robinson

Data centres across Europe are nearing capacity

Data centres across Europe are bulging at the seams, with the majority operating at 82% of maximum capacity.

Aside from space constraints, a study undertaken by Hewlett-Packard highlights the other pressures on data centres: a lack of energy, cooling issues, and the impact of environmental legislation.

Surveying over a thousand CIOs and business unit heads, HP found that the most common data centre focus is on short-term programmes of data centre rationalisation and consolidation.

The report shows that despite a tightening of IT budgets brought on by the credit crunch, 60% of companies still plan to invest in data centre improvement in the coming year, with UK companies averaging 3.4 data centre projects a year (a figure expected to rise to 4.2 in three years). The survey also identified a key gripe: 72% of CIOs feel “business heads fail to understand how data centre issues are, in fact, truly business issues”.

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